Went to bed on sad news last night, please light a candle

[gemma-lou]

my son is 21 and for the last 6 years has been friends with a lovely lad in indiana who he met on the X box playing online, racing each other via need for speed and sharing their love of cars.
Though the last 6 years he has become friends with Paycin's friends also and the 4 of them was coming over next year to finally meet up but most importantly paycin was who I have also spoken to over the years "hello reece's mom!" "Hello Paycin! ". Saturday the 4 lads all graduated and paycin was due to then work alongside with his grandad in a automotive workshop. One of the 4 lads threw graduation party Saturday night and his dad heavy of alcohol brought out his shot gun and started throwing it around, and then shot Paysin dead accidently. Reece shared the news with us in floods of tears last night and I wished at that moment in time he was living home again where he could have lots of cuddles. so sad to think he won't get to wake up in the morning after graduation and think "I did it! I graduated!"

Paycin's friends and class mates who he graduated and family are taking candles tonight to the school where they graduated for a ceremony.
Reece is now making plans to go over to Indiana next year to meet up with the other 3 lads and say good bye to Paycin. He is going to take a drive in his car as the family have said they are going to keep it and reece will finish the design off with the decals/stickers both he and Paycin had made together of Paycin's car on the game that he will now not get to finish himself.

Please join me and light a candle at 9pm this evening if you have one.

[maidmarian]

Oh how terrible and how sad 😢

[nadya]

How sad,that's so awful. RIP

[missy E]

Awful.

Thoughts sent out for your DS & his friends.

The boys friends father will shoulder this until his grave. I hate Americas love of guns and again this proves my strong feelings on this are justified.

A waste of a life, stay strong all of you x

[Baggie Bird]

What a terrible waste of a young life RIP

[MillyMoo]

oh my gosh thats sad, im so sorry. That's a beautiful thing that your son is doing, a very touching and heartfelt thing to do x

[ClaireNJ]

How awful & tragic 😢so sad for you & your son to find this out xx

[EssexSue]

What a terrible waste of a life. So very sorry.

[Bootrip2]

So very sad. ☹️

[Rac20]

Such sad news.😢 x